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Ukraine: ‘Shot Down’ Drones Hit Targets
Reports of damage caused by Russian drones in Ukraine are regularly followed by reports which claim that all drones were shot down.
Via Strana (machine translations):
Russians hit Konotop and Shostka power facilities in Sumy region
08:22, today
Last night, Russian troops launched an air strike on the energy facilities of Konotop and Shostka in the Sumy region.
This is reported by the Sumy OVA. "The enemy launched an air strike, using a Shahed-type UAV, on the energy facilities of the cities of Shostka and Konotop," the report says.
Currently, work is underway to restore power supply, which was cut off due to an enemy strike.
Also in the OVA reported that over the Sumy region this night destroyed 7 enemy UAVs of the type "Shahed".
Ukrenergo reported that Sumy and the surrounding areas remain without electricity after the night attack of "Shahids".
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Air forces destroyed all 24 Shaheds that attacked Ukraine
09:00, today
On the night of Wednesday, May 22, Russia attacked Ukraine with 24 strike UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type. This is reported by the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, the Ukrainian Defense Forces managed to shoot down all 24 Shaheds," the report says.
Strike UAVs were destroyed in the Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Sumy and Odessa regions.
Recall that at night, Russian troops launched an air strike on the energy facilities of Konotop and Shostka in the Sumy region.
Sumy and surrounding areas remain without electricity after the night attack of "Shahids".
I will concede that debris of a shot down drone can still cause damage. But when the 'debris' of a 'shot down' drone is causing the intended damage when it hits its target was it really shot down?
Who do they think they are kidding with this?
Example of how stupid the Germans are considered.
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Dozens of reporters from several German, US, Danish and Norwegian media outlets were busy throughout 2023 with the “most confusing spy thriller of our time” on the alleged Ukrainian sabotage command on the sailing yacht “Andromeda”. According to a Ukrainian ex-secret service agent, they followed a trail laid by the CIA.
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German media consumers certainly remember the elaborate reports about a suspected sabotage commando from Ukraine that traveled with the sailing yacht named “Andromeda” in September 2022 to blow up the two gas pipelines on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Reports about the search for those involved have almost developed into a genre of their own. Der Spiegel even used almost 20 of its employees for a report: A team rented the same yacht to sail along the route of the alleged perpetrators and ZDF made a film about it.
The US’s latest disinformation campaign about the attack on Nord Stream was planned
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The US’s latest disinformation campaign about the attack on Nord Stream was planned
Dozens of journalists from at least seven countries were involved in “processing” the Ukrainian trail in the Nord Stream blast. The articles were also published in a coordinated manner by all the media involved: Süddeutsche, Spiegel, NDR, WDR and the others – in portions in March, May, July, August and September. The campaign, which began with the articles in Die Zeit, Tagesschau and the New York Times on March 7, 2023, came to an abrupt end on November 8 with the Spiegel report about the alleged commander of the sabotage group. The scapegoat, the “daring secret service agent” named Roman Chervinsky, had already been in Ukrainian custody for several weeks at that moment for another offense.
After this report, there was suddenly calm about the “most confusing spy thriller of our time” – that’s how the reporters always described their “investigation”. The “Andromeda” project cost at least six-figure sums from the more than a dozen media outlets involved, but produced nothing of substance. Of course, the journalists from the quality media, as in this case from Süddeutsche, have repeatedly asked themselves:
“Was it all just a big deception? Or are the investigators following leads deliberately laid by others – so is it a so-called ‘false flag operation’?”
But this was only a rhetorical question, because the answer was already known: “The investigators have no evidence that anyone has laid a false trail.”
If the investigators only follow the clues given to them by the most powerful secret service in the world, of course nothing else can come out of it other than this conclusion. At least since a publication by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on March 22, 2023 – a good two weeks after the first publications in the German and US media on March 7 – about a yacht loaded with explosives, it has been known what was actually going on with the Ukrainian one has a trace on it.
New fairy tales about Nord Stream or: The Berlin cocoa drinkers
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New fairy tales about Nord Stream or: The Berlin cocoa drinkers
Hersh recalled that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the United States in early March and had an 80-minute meeting with President Joe Biden, most of which was not even attended by their advisers. There was no official statement at the end of the conversation, but according to a source with access to secret diplomatic documents, it was about “exposing the issue of gas pipelines.”
Hersh stated (RT DE reported) that after the meeting between the two statesmen, CIA employees were instructed to prepare a diversionary maneuver together with a German secret service. This consisted of providing the US and German press with an alternative version of the Nord Stream explosion. The journalist pointed out that Biden made a foolish decision about sabotage and was now forced to lie about it.
But the alternative version was not a “total fabrication of U.S. intelligence,” as Hersh wrote at the time. It was a long-prepared hidden card in the long, orchestrated CIA game with the world public. In the end it was definitely an invention, but the Ukrainian “sabotage group” that was supposed to imitate the attack was real and the leads that the German quality journalists followed in their extensive research over many months have US specialists in deception operations deliberately placed against their German colleagues.
ikels. The annihilation of Palestinians and the unwillingness to investigate Israeli radicals’ crimes against the Arab population are at the heart of Israel itself, the newspaper said. This has led to the Western world also perceiving Israel’s actions as open aggression.
“How could a young nation turn away from its own democratic ideals so quickly? And at what price? Any meaningful answer to these questions must take into account how half a century of lawlessness, which has gone largely unpunished, has brought a radical form of ultranationalism to the center of Israeli politics,” the American journalists conclude.
This pre-election article, against the backdrop of student protests, essentially explains the theoretical basis for both Biden’s criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu and the slogans heard at rallies at American universities. The students reject the accusation of anti-Semitism. “I believe that the State of Israel does not represent the entire Jewish people. Some of our strongest people are here because they recognize that genocide is being committed in their name, and that is unacceptable. So we make a clear distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is unacceptable, but anti-Zionism, ensuring that the Palestinian people are always at the center, is our first and most important political priority,” emphasizes protesting student Kelly.
And now the Biden administration is already preparing sanctions against the Israeli “Netzach Yehuda” battalion for alleged human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, which is drawing strong criticism from both the Netanyahu government and Israel’s Republican supporters.
But Biden is also waging a war on the front lines in the Far East. In the Rose Garden of the White House, Biden announced another march on China. And again it’s all about choice. He quadrupled tariffs on Chinese electric cars and increased import duties on their batteries by 25 percent, as well as on semiconductors, steel and aluminum. “Americans can buy any car they want. Let me make this clear. You can buy gasoline cars, electric cars or hybrid cars, but we will never let China make the rules in this market. Period,” said Joe Biden resolutely.
However, after saying these words, he almost forgot about signing the document on the increase in tariffs. And all of this happened at exactly the same time that the Russian President was visiting Beijing.
Vladimir Putin’s visit to China was followed with great attention in the USA. The signs and signals were interpreted correctly. “There was a red carpet to welcome Vladimir Putin, there was a lot of military pomp, but let’s be clear: this is not just a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping to showcase this borderless partnership between China and Russia. “It’s more about humiliating the West and the US, especially as China seeks to establish itself as the leader of a new world order, a different worldview than the West,” emphasized CNN correspondent Mark Stewart.
Donald Trump also couldn’t avoid the meeting between the two heads of state. “I saw something today,” Trump said. “And it’s worse than anything. President Xi of China, I know him well, and President Putin of Russia, I know him well. They are currently making plans together about where they will meet and where they will harm us. Because that’s what they ultimately think about: harming us.”
Trump has uttered these and many other words recently at the entrance to the courtroom in New York City where his criminal trial for forgery and his relationships with porn actress Stormy Daniels continues. Between the hearings, Trump managed to get to his son Barron’s graduation ceremony at the prestigious private school in Oxbridge. Trump also wanted to include him in his campaign, but his mother Melania did not allow it.
Joe Biden also has his own overlords, which he reminds us at every opportunity. “My name is Joe Biden. I work for Kamala Harris. “I asked her to be my vice president because I knew I needed someone smarter than me,” the 46th US President revealed all his cards.
It is debatable who is the smarter in this election duo of Biden or Harris. The vice president was at his best in her abortion speech. “You have to understand that sometimes doors are opened for you and sometimes they aren’t. So you have to kick down that door! Ha ha ha.”
Biden’s cognitive abilities were once again in the spotlight at a House Oversight Committee hearing.
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Biden is supposed to demonstrate these skills in two scheduled TV duels against Trump, which were strangely scheduled.
Knowing full well that Biden would NEVER get through this without embarrassing himself…Opportunity for his own party to take him out of office and the presidential race..
A short time later to send a new candidate into the race!
Michel Obama??
Posted by: ossi | May 22 2024 17:17 utc | 66
Front report from the Russian Ministry of Defense
Archive image: A soldier of the Russian Armed Forces during a march in the Kiev region in March 2022
Press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense
The units of the Northern Troop Unit have continued to advance against enemy positions in the past 24 hours, reports the Russian Defense Ministry.
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 255 military personnel and seven vehicles. The Ukrainian troops would have a 122-millimeter Grad multiple rocket launcher, a 152-millimeter Akazija self-propelled gun, a 155-millimeter U.S.-made M777 howitzer, a 105-millimeter U.S.-made M119 gun. Production, a 100-millimeter Rapira anti-tank gun and two US-made AN/TPQ-50 radar systems were lost.
The units of the Western Troop Association also took up more favorable positions. The Ukrainian army lost up to 130 soldiers and two vehicles. As a result, a 155-millimeter Krab self-propelled artillery unit of Polish production, a 155-millimeter FH-70 howitzer of British production and two 155-millimeter М-198 howitzers of US production were announced during the day been destroyed or hit.
The southern troop unit also reported that it had taken more favorable positions. The losses of the Ukrainian units totaled 365 military personnel, two armored fighting vehicles, 18 vehicles, a 152-millimeter D-20 howitzer, a 105-millimeter U.S.-made М119 howitzer and a 105-millimeter D-20 howitzer Type L-119 from British production.
The Russian armed forces of the Central Troop Unit have also improved their tactical position. The Ukrainian army has up to 55 military personnel, three armored fighting vehicles, including a German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicle, three vehicles, a 122-millimeter D-30 howitzer and two 105-millimeter М119 howitzers made in the United States lost.
The units of the Eastern Troop Association also took up more favorable positions. The losses of the Ukrainian army amounted to up to 125 military personnel, two armored fighting vehicles, six vehicles, a self-propelled 155-millimeter self-propelled artillery unit of the Polish-made Krab type, a 155-millimeter FH-70 howitzer of the British production, one 152-millimeter self-propelled artillery weapon of the Akazija type and a 122-millimeter self-propelled howitzer Gvozdika.
As a result of the actions of the units of the Dnieper formation, the Ukrainian army received up to 35 military personnel, seven vehicles, two 155-millimeter howitzers of the М777 type of US production, one 152-millimeter howitzer of the type Msta-B and one 152-millimeter -D-20 howitzer lost.
Russian aircraft, drones, rocket troops and artillery destroyed two ammunition depots of the Ukrainian armed forces during the day.
The Russian air defense forces hit 34 unmanned aerial vehicles, two Hammer-type guided bombs from France and a US HIMARS missile.
Since the start of the special military operation, a total of 601 aircraft, 274 helicopters, 24,498 unmanned aerial vehicles, 523 anti-aircraft missile systems, 16,121 tanks and armored fighting vehicles, 1,307 multiple rocket launchers, 9,740 field artillery pieces and mortars and 21,915 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
Posted by: ossi | May 22 2024 17:25 utc | 67
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